My wife's friend Kerry was hit and killed by a drunk driver in bad crash, along with her son, and her partner was paralyzed, he can't even move from the neck down.. She was 8 months pregnant also. I can't imagine what the poor guy is going through having nothing left, and not even being able to 'move on'.

Fuck...

I have zero tolerance for drunk (or otherwise impaired) driving. If it were up to me, the first offence would be serious jail-time, followed by life-long probation and a permanent ban on operating any vehicles.

Bad luck for you, actually.....VERY bad luck, considering the average drunk driver averages several trips across the country and back in miles before actually getting pulled over and caught.....UNLESS you were swerving all over the road.

The President and the legislature need to do something about automobiles, aka death machines. These 4000+ pound monstrosities kill thousands of people every YEAR. Why do people even need their 300+ horsepower sports cars or leather-clad pickup trucks that don't even haul anything? Their needs to be a mandate where it is required to have to ride a bicycle or take public transportation....failing that, only the Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Prius should be made available to the public, and at hefty government-mandated prices at that.

Bad luck for you, actually.....VERY bad luck, considering the average drunk driver averages several trips across the country and back in miles before actually getting pulled over and caught.....UNLESS you were swerving all over the road.

The President and the legislature need to do something about automobiles, aka death machines. These 4000+ pound monstrosities kill thousands of people every YEAR. Why do people even need their 300+ horsepower sports cars or leather-clad pickup trucks that don't even haul anything? Their needs to be a mandate where it is required to have to ride a bicycle or take public transportation....failing that, only the Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Prius should be made available to the public, and at hefty government-mandated prices at that.

I was in a car accident once was in the emergency room and the cop come in the area I was in and said he thought I had been drinking so they did a blood test, so he charged me with a DUI so I go to court and two things the cop wasn't supposed to be back in the area when they were working with me on injuries and the blood test came back negative case dismissed. He fucked up I sue for the aggravation.

every fucking body frequently drives seriously impaired in some way - drugs legal/illegal, drink, mentally fuked up (from serious mental disease to having had a fight with gf) , old, effectively blind, on the phone, etc-

If I had to choose between the two, I'd rather be a passenger with a guy who drank 8 beers then with some douchebag who wont stop texting while he's driving.

I wouldn't get in a car with either, personally. But in theory, I'd take the texter. While I don't like texting and driving and think that it clearly causes impairment, the fact is that the impairment only exists when actually texting and toying with the phone. The impairment caused by booze, on the other hand, lasts a lot longer and won't just go away.

So true...I've known many people who would bash anyone who drives after drinking but then do it themselves. The Ego is always in control.

I don't think that everyone does it. I know that every time I've gone out drinking, I made sure to have plans for getting back home that did not involve a car. And the one time I didn't have a chance to do that and drank (quite a bit too) I was lucid and rational enough to keep my keys in my pocket and pay for a taxi.

every fucking body frequently drives seriously impaired in some way - drugs legal/illegal, drink, mentally fuked up (from serious mental disease to having had a fight with gf) , old, effectively blind, on the phone, etc-

That is, of course true. But what does that have to do with anything? Let's see...

Oh, I see... so just because other things are also distracting and cause impairment, we shouldn't focus on anything that is distracting and causes impairment. That's just brilliant! You, sir, are a brilliant thinker!

It's not? Hmm... and here I thought that years of philosophy, logic, math and computer science courses had honed my logical reasoning skills to be razor sharp. But hey, if some guy on the Internet says they aren't, I guess it must be true!

my argument is that since there are x,y,w..z causes of impaired driving it is bs to focus on a single one

The only thing that's bullshit is your argument. You can't lump state of mind (something that cannot be reasonably and objectively evaluated) along with BAC, which can be. While it's true that we should focus on reducing all factors that impair drivers, but we can and should focus only on those that we can do something about. More than that, we should only focus on those where we can reasonably expect our focus and attention to have a positive impact.